Jürgen Bodeux

Jürgen Bodeux (born July 28, 1953 in Wanne-Eickel ) gained notoriety through his involvement in the murder of the student Ulrich Schmücker and his later appearance in the Schmücker trial as a defendant and witness.

Life

The father was an insurance lawyer. His mother separated from him when Jürgen Bodeux was four years old. The child grew up with his father in Cologne-Porz . Bodeux attended several schools, went to boarding school and left school without a degree. He obtained his secondary school diploma through the adult education center. He broke off an apprenticeship as a tax assistant. In 1970 he turned to the drug scene. According to Stefan Aust , Bodeux took all kinds of illegal drugs, including heroin , which he sniffed.

Political commitment

In 1972 he began to be interested in politics and became active in the SDAJ , which did not last long. Bodeux socialized in left circles and was mostly dropped after a short time because he knocked on radical slogans, but mostly did little. In 1973 he tried to get close to the Rote Hilfe in Bonn and got involved with political prisoners.

Schmücker murder

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Bodeux sought contact with the left- wing terrorist scene in order to become a member of a terrorist group . In Berlin he came into the circle of people to whom Ulrich Schmücker belonged, although in the scene he was considered an undercover agent for the protection of the constitution or a kind of traitor. Bodeux made the acquaintance of Ilse Schwipper from Wolfsburg in Berlin in 1974 , to whom he had already written during her imprisonment in 1973. He also lived in her commune in Wolfsburg- Heßlingen and became her lover. Schmücker was found shot dead in Grunewald on June 4, 1974 . In the following process Bodeux appeared as a key witness . He claimed to have obtained the weapon, a " Parabellum 08", and to have selected the crime scene with the main defendant, Ilse Schwipper, during a stay in Berlin . However, he denied having shot himself. He received a five-year youth sentence, which he accepted and of which he served three years. The other defendants went on appeal .

In a new edition of the Schmücker trial in 1978/79, defense lawyers suspected that Bodeux had spied on the scene as early as 1974 as an informant for the protection of the constitution. What role he played in the murder of Ulrich Schmücker has not been clarified. The judgments against the other accused resulting from his testimony were corrected after years of trials. The procedure in which Bodeux appeared as a key witness is considered to be one of the biggest judicial scandals in the history of the Federal Republic.

literature

• Stefan Aust: The decoy. The fatal story of an undercover agent between the protection of the constitution and terrorism. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-498-00063-2 .
• Bernd Häusler: The endless key witness. Scenes from the Schmücker trial . Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88747-043-5 .

Web links

• Excerpt from Heinrich Hannover, terrorist trials on key witness Jürgen Bodeux

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Aust: The Decoy , p. 150.